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TIL Pillbugs/roly polys/doodlebugs aren’t actually bugs or millipedes, but actually crustaceans.

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o7XE TIL: If you use tonic water to make Jello-O, it will glow under a black light.
DQgLY TIL because of the US Neutrality act at the start of WWII, the US delivered planes to the US-Canadian border and Britain pulled the across using horses or trucks.
OQA6 TIL that Martine Rothblatt made millions by inventing satellite radio. When her daughter was diagnosed w/ pulmonary hypertension, she earned a PhD in bioethics & formed a biotech company that licensed drugs to treat her daughter’s illness from other companies, making them much more widely available
nWr69 TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it
BlDy TIL that from 1808 to 1821, the capital of Portugal was moved to Rio de Janeiro, making it the only European country to have been ruled from its colonies.